Wikipedia Mess

Here’s one good reason why you shouldn’t use Wikipedia as a reliable source for any kind of research:

In the Wikipedia entry for “Melody,” someone obviously added their own take on “what melody does.” I’m sure it will be changed soon, but how many others will visit the entry before it will? Because of this, no one should ever use Wikipedia entries as sources for research. It can be a good jumping off point, but it should never be cited in academic papers at all. Yet people still do it.

FYI

My name is Eric and I live in Burke, Virginia.

Here are a few tidbits about me: Chesapeake, Virginia is my hometown; Cheri is my lovely wife; Photography and pool are my most active hobbies; Crohn's Disease is my ailment; Virginia Tech and The George Washington University are the schools I graduated from; Cookies & Cream is my favorite ice cream flavor.

Also, fallenposters is the alias I use on most websites. It was the first username I came up with when joining instant messenger in college. The first thing I saw was the posters that had fallen from my dorm room wall, and the rest is history.